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Chapter 5

"I can't believe she just used my phone like that and you actually agreed to meet her!" Alice rolled her eyes.

After Tanya left, I called up Alice to come to the mall knowing she wouldn't refuse, despite her surprised reactions to find me here willingly. Malls were the last place I came to. I just needed to talk to her about the whole Tanya and Edward situation. I was being vague though, of course. These things were personal for Tanya and I'm sure Alice is the last person she wanted to know.

"Look Ali, I'm telling you, she's not so bad." I defended.

"What did you even talk about? Boob jobs and lip pumpers." She chuckled to herself.

"Actually, we talked about your brother which is why I called you up. Thought you might be interested in hearing her side of the story." I bargained.

"What do you mean?"

"The girl is a saint, Alice. All she wants is for her dad to love her and her old boyfriend."

"Laurent or James or is there someone else?" She spat disapprovingly.

"James. So only went out with Laurent to get James back and to defy her dad. It's a long story but apparently Edward was the one way her dad wouldn't think of her as such a sin."

"So she used Edward for her dad's approval?"

"In a way. Her dad recommended Edward and when she thought about how it could get her dad back she took the opportunity but the she realized that if her dad doesn't love her for who she is, why should she try and change. She is now going to break up with Edward and try to get James back."

"Do we tell Edward?" Alice questioned.

"No. Let her do all the talking."

"So when they break up..." I didn't have to hear the rest of that sentence to know she was talking about Edward and I...together.

"Alice...are you really going to start again. If he wanted me, he would have dumped Tanya and came to me a long time ago. Now that she is dumping him, he definitely won't want me."

"You don't know that!" She exclaimed. "Gosh, you're such a pessimist."

"I am not." I urged as we walked up to a Baskin Robbin's and I ordered a Gold Metal Ribbon while Alice ordered Vanilla. "I just don't like getting my hopes up to be let down."

I handed the girl exact change, then she handed me over my ice cream as well as Alice's.

We sat down at a nearby table with a bunch of sticky rings from cups around the edges of it along with salt from various fast food restaurants. Those places have infinite amounts of calories which should make them illegal. Ir's disgusting.

"Look Bella, I wouldn't lie to you. I just have this weird feeling that your hopes won't get let down. Like a six sense."

"With you, I find it hard to believe I'm in eleventh grade." I mumbled.

"Ha ha, very funny."

"What about you and Jasper, huh? You don't see me nagging about it all the time."

Jasper Whitlock was Edward's other best friend. The only difference between me and Jazz was the fact that they could talk about sports and sex while we talked about the good old times and his emotional relationship rather than physical. Jasper has medium length blond locks and a sharp nose with a soft chin. His family moved here about three years ago from Texas and him and Alice had an immediate connection. They both claim they are "just friends" but I find that hard to believe. They have been on more dates then all the couples at our school combined but tell us those "dates" are just casual outings to movies or informal restaurants.

"We're just friends." She said softly.

"Oh really? Wow, I find that hard to believe."

"What's that supposed to mean?" She hissed.

"Well, it's just that, I didn't know friends kissed each other. Edward and I don't." Although I wish we did.

"Where did you here that?" She shouted.

"So you admit it?" I asked casually.

"Bella." She sighed sternly.

"Okay, okay." I surrendered. "Edward's room has a great view to the porch." I smiled eveily.

"That bastard."

I laughed lightly. "Alice, come on. The guy obviously likes you and neither of you have anything standing in your way like a girlfriend or soon to be ex-girlfriend or unrequited love."

"So what are you saying?"

"I am saying that you are Alice Mary Brandon. Take a chance and ask him out just because the guy doesn't have the guts to!"

"He did initiate the kiss." She defended.

"Stop defending him and go be with him!"

"You know what Isabella, you are right." She smiled, got up, tossed her finished ice-cream cup into the garbage and waved back at me, skipping off to meet Jasper.

At least fate thinks I'm a good friend.

I sat back against the uncomfortable booth, eating the rest of my ice-cream in silence, playing with the soft caramel then sticking spoons of it into my mouth and letting it melts away before I heard someone slip into the booth across from me and sigh.

"Edward?" I inquired, surprised.

"Hey Bella." He sighed again.

"What's up?" I asked, uneasy.

"Tanya broke up with me."

"Oh." Well, I could say I didn't see that one coming but who am I kidding?

"And she explained why."

"Why...?"

"She told me the whole father thing and how she wants James back and everything. The same story she told you."

"Oh, I'm really sorry Edward that she used you like that."

"It's alright. I feel so bad for her though. We have to make it up to her."

"How? Call her father up and tell him how much of a jackass he is?" I snorted rhetorically, crossing my arms and leaning back again.

The glint in Edward's eye told me it was something close to that.

"Edward...no." I shook my head. "There is no way we are messing with her family. That is none of our business."

"Or we are not messing with her family. Just with James."

"Things happen for a reason. We can't decide fate, it has to decide itself and there is no way in hell I am helping you tamper with something that shouldn't be tampered with!"

"You are redundant when your defenseless."

Edward better thank his lucky stars that I am in love with him. The words impulsive and reckless have never been in my vocabulary.

Until now.

Along with seduction.

and there we have it...sorry to leave you hanging but I guess your just gunna have to read the next chapter to find out

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